A grand welcome has been planned to welcome Olympic Silver Medalist PV Sindhu In Andhra Pradesh. Sindhu and her coach Pullela Gopichand are being taken by a special flight from Hyderabad to Vijayawada. They will be accompanied by Vijayawada MP Kesineni Nani, who is making arrangements for a massive rally in Vijayawada today.

Thousands gathered at the large ground and all roads were spilling over with traffic headed for Secunderabad to attend the meeting. For the Telangana Rashtra Samiti's founding day, the city of Hyderabad was awash in the party's signature pink.

The BJP announced cheerily this evening that its alliance with Chandrababu Naidu in Andhra Pradesh is "rocking" - the reassurance was offered by Prakash Javadekar this evening who said, "It's not rocky, it's rocking". Mr Naidu had suggested the opposite at a rally last evening, declaring that the partnership was placed near break point.

At a massive rally of over one lakh people in Hyderabad, YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy today asked the people of Andhra Pradesh to give his party 30 Lok Sabha seats in next year's general election to stop the bifurcation of the state. He also made a promise, saying he will support any party that 'backs a united Andhra Pradesh.'

Before his mega Hyderabad rally on October 26 against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, Jagan Mohan Reddy has raised the pitch. He has accused Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy of "diluting the agitation" and has written to the governor to demand that a special session of the state Assembly be called to discuss the Telangana issue.

Jagan Mohan Reddy, the head of the YSR Congress, has won a court case to hold what's expected to be a large rally in Hyderabad later this month where he will champion a "United Andhra" and repeat his objections to the bifurcation of his home state.

In front of around 1500 supporters at his Lotus Pound residence in Hyderabad, YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy stepped up the anti-Telangana protests today by beginning an indefinite fast. According to sources, the 40-year-old leader's fast will continue till a huge public rally he is planning in Hyderabad on October 18.

Protests have intensified in Vijayawada in central Andhra Pradesh. Highways NH 5 and NH 9 have come to a stand-still. Vehicles had been blocked on the arterial highway that connects Chennai, and other important locations on the southeast coast such as Srikakulam, Vishakhapatnam, all the way to Kolkata in West Bengal.

Pro-Telangana forces today hurled stones at police and government employees from the Andhra-Rayalaseema regions in a bid to thwart a rally organised in Hyderabad by the Andhra Pradesh Non-Gazetted Officers Association (APNGOA).

After Narendra Modi was accused of co-opting Barack Obama's slogan "Yes, we can," while addressing a massive rally in Hyderabad on Sunday, his supporters have released a video from 2004 to deny claims that the Gujarat Chief Minister took a page out of the US President's book.

Kickstarting his election campaign in the South from Hyderabad, Narendra Modi today appealed to all non-Congress parties to come together to rid the country of Congress at the Centre and end "dynastic" rule even as he reached out to the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today addressed a youth conclave at the Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad. Beginning his speech in Telugu, Mr Modi urged the people to vote out the "corrupt" Congress government and bring in the Bharatiya Janata Party. Mr Modi attacked the government on every issue that has been plaguing the country of late - cea...

Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu, former party president Bangaru Laxman and several retired bureaucrats were among those who met Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is slated to address a public meeting in Hyderabad today at 4:30 pm.

Narendra Modi has begun his mega rally in Hyderabad to kick off the BJP's election campaign. The BJP has left no stone unturned to ensure a grand visit for the man expected to soon be named the party's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2014 general elections.

The ongoing agitation against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh is likely to cast a shadow on the much-publicised Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally to be addressed by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad today.

The BJP today began the offline registration of participants for the public meeting to be addressed by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Hyderabad on August 11. The party is asking each participant to pay Rs 5 to attend the meeting. The online registrations began last week.

The BJP has said that by charging people Rs 5 to attend a rally by Narendra Modi in Hyderabad, it is delivering a paradigm shift in the political landscape. Union Minister Manish Tewari tweeted that tickets for even flop films sell for Rs. 200-250.

Pro-Telangana students on Thursday clashed with police on the Osmania University (OU) campus in Hyderabad for the second consecutive day, demanding that they be allowed to take out a rally towards the State Assembly.

Ray Jennings, the Bangalore coach and a Kohli mentor if ever there was one, acknowledged that Kohli had issues to work on, but hastened to add that the system needed to rally around the young man, especially if it had identified him as the one to lead India in future.

The Maharashtra Police on Wednesday handed over a notice to Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (MIM) chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, denying him permission to address a public meeting at Aurangabad in Maharashtra, police sources said.